Baltimore has been
an industrial city for much of it's past, and while much
of the industrial base has left, plenty of reminders
can be found all over town. Sure there is plenty of
industry left in Baltimore today, and there are
still some big plants in town, but over the years,
in a changing world, many of the old factories have
closed down or moved to where things can be done
cheaper.

While we list this page as " Factories
", you find all types of Baltimore's Industrial past
here. Let me know what you think.

Baltimore Factories

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In a 1931 Industrial Plant
publication for Baltimore City, listings are found of
industrial plants that produced just about everything,
right here in Baltimore. Here is just a sample of some
of the trade names found in that Directory of items made
in Baltimore back then :

Directly
across the street from where the Sunpapers building is
now. The building was torn down years ago from what I
can tell. By the 1940's, no listing at all could be
found for it .

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Greenspring Dairy
1020 West 41st Street

Back in the day, we had our milk delivered by the
Greenspring Dairy. Delivery of milk is no longer
done in Baltimore, and the old dairy building was vacant
for years, before being torn down in the 1980's, and a
shopping center went up on the site.

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..Photo -
Courtesy of the Baltimore Gas and
Electric Collection at the Baltimore
Museum of Industry

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Hendler's Ice Cream 1100 East Baltimore Street

The Hendler Building still stands to this day on East
Baltimore Street. It had been used for a variety of uses
over the years, and I believe the City currently owns
the building. The company was listed well in to the
1960's at this address.

Koontz Dairy was torn down for the construction of the "
new " Northern Parkway , a
thruway that replaced Belvedere Avenue. , at the intersection
of Reisterstown Road. There is no trace of the building at
all today.

.Photo -
Courtesy of the Baltimore Gas and
Electric Collection at the Baltimore
Museum of Industry

Kress Farm Dairy
East Preston at Gay Street
( Listed in 1931 as 2416 East North Ave - currently a
parking lot )

The building still stands to this day, although a
church on the southside of the block was recently
razed.

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.Photo -
Courtesy of the Baltimore Gas and
Electric Collection at the Baltimore
Museum of Industry

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Lord Baltimore Ice
Cream

A small ice cream company that operated in Baltimore
back in the 1920's. By the early 1930's, Lord Baltimore
had an address of 203-211 North Vincent Street, in West
Baltimore, near West Lexington Street. I don't believe
the building still stands.

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Photo -
Courtesy of the Baltimore Gas and
Electric Collection at the Baltimore
Museum of Industry

Maryland Creamery AKA - Jersey Ice Cream Products1726 West Pratt St

Circa the 1920's. I checked the
area and nothing remotely
resembles this complex. The name was listed as of 1931 but
not for 1940 in any Directories I could find.

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Photo -
Courtesy of the Baltimore Gas and
Electric Collection at the Baltimore
Museum of Industry

Prices Dairy 6005 Liberty Road,
between Northern Parkway and Flannery LanePrices Dairy was
an entire operation , run at this location , who also had
some of the best local ice cream. We are attempting to
locate pictures. We found it listed in 1965 in one Directory
. Thanks to Dan.

Driving around Baltimore these days, you'll
find a Royal Farm store just about anywhere in town. Apparently
the chain has roots to this small building on Baker Street,
which is currently used as a small mechanical shop to this
day.Known as the Royal Dunloggin Dairy in 1949, and trademarks
were the Square top bottle and the Baby-top bottle. The
Braddish Avenue Address was used up to the 1960's.

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Photo -
Courtesy of the Baltimore Gas and
Electric Collection at the Baltimore
Museum of Industry

Supreme Ice Cream1224 - 1228 Greenmount
Avenue

The Supreme Ice Cream
Company was located in Greenmount Avenue, in the area of
the City Jail. As you might of guessed, the building is
long gone. Supreme Dairy Products was later lasted at 2601
Georgetown Rd.

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Photos -
Courtesy of the Baltimore Gas and
Electric Collection at the Baltimore
Museum of Industry

In my daily searches of old Baltimore buildings, I
really expected to find this still standing, but a drive
by shows no trace of the Western Maryland Dairy complex
at all. A modern section of the Bolton Hill neighborhood
stands on the site today.

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Photo -
Courtesy of the Baltimore Gas and
Electric Collection at the Baltimore
Museum of Industry

Willow Farms Dairy1424 Reisterstown Rd

I
believe that Willow Farms was further out on
Reisterstown Road, in Pikesville. Besides the image from
an ad, I have found little on the Willow Farms Dairy so
far. I have have a reference to the Wilton Farms Dairy
however, located on Frederick Road at Longwood. The investigation
continues...........

General Bakery ( Bread
)1300
East North Avenue
Harford Rd and North AveNW
Corner

The General
Bakery was listed listed as open as late as 1966 from
what I can find. In later years, the building stood,
and the basement was used as a second hand clothing store
for years. A Walgreens's is now on the site.

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Photo -
Courtesy of the Baltimore Gas and
Electric Collection at the Baltimore
Museum of Industry

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Holzman's Bakery

Baltimore ad Circa
1945

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Kolbs Bakery
2509 ( 2523 ) Pennsylvania Avenue
Located on Pennsylvania Avenue, just north of North
Avenue. It would have been right next to the old
Metropolitan movie theater, on the east side of the street
. The building was torn down years ago, for the subway station.

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Photo -
Courtesy of the Baltimore Gas and
Electric Collection at the Baltimore
Museum of Industry

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Kunkel & Haverstick
804 ( 806 ) Light
Street

A South Baltimore bakery, on Light Street, just south of
Montgomery Street. Listed back in the 1940's, the block
over the years also housed a small movie house , and a
car dealership. A office building can be found there
today.

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Photo -
Courtesy of the Baltimore Gas and
Electric Collection at the Baltimore
Museum of Industry

Meade Bakery1107 Aisquith Street

There are no traces of the Meade Bakery surviving
today. Listed from at least the 1920's into the 1930's.
The location is currently a City housing complex.

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Photo -
Courtesy of the Baltimore Gas and
Electric Collection at the Baltimore
Museum of Industry

Pariser's Bakery
2304 Pennsylvania Avenue @ Cumberland

This building stands today, used as a plumbing supply
company.

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Rice's Bakery4128
Hayward Avenue
400 North High Street ( 2nd Image )

It appears that the High Street location has been
razed, which was in the location of where the Orleans
Viaduct now passes over head., as much of High Street
in that area is more or less a parking lot. A recent
check on the Hayward address finds that building to
still be standing, although for other uses..

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Photos -
Courtesy of the Baltimore Gas and
Electric Collection at the Baltimore
Museum of Industry

To this day, the City Bakery is still standing and
operating on Laurens Street.

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Photo -
Courtesy of the Baltimore Gas and
Electric Collection at the Baltimore
Museum of Industry

Schumann's Bakery4904
Ritchie Hwy
& other addresses

1950's era bakery

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Superior Bakery1821
Aiken Street

An empty lot is all that remains of the
Superior Bakery these days.

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Photos -
Courtesy of the Baltimore Gas and
Electric Collection at the Baltimore
Museum of Industry

Candy

In 1914, the Industrial Survey of Baltimore
placed the city 5th among Cities in the Country in the
quanitiy and value of the candy it manufactured. According
to the report, the quality of the candy made in Baltimore
was generally very good, with 75 percen tof the candy
being made here termed to be high quality, with
28 larger candy companies in the City during that
year, with only 18 percent of the candy being produced
actually being comsumed here, the rest being shipped
around the County for sale.

Much of Liberty Street disappeared over the years for
Charles Center and the Civic Center. I have seen
mentions of the Martha Washington Candy, but today this
entire block is long gone. In the 1940's, a branch was
mentioned at Myrtle and Cushings Streets.

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Photo -
Courtesy of the Baltimore Gas and
Electric Collection at the Baltimore
Museum of Industry

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